Irish Disability Advocate with RP, Ushers & chronic pain. Vocal for #SocialJustice & #UNCPD. Demand full physical & comms access. Scrap the Act, rebuild it!
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The Dept of Disability's review of the Disability Act 2005 is live. My message is clear: 🛑 STOP amending a loophole. Adults have NO legal right to an Assessment of Needs. Scrap it and rebuild from the ground up!
@MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @NormaFoleyTD1 @EmerHigginsTD
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Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
How many times have we all been told how we have record levels of employment? Meaning less people than ever are claiming jobseekers payments.
What a shame that this is even where his focus would be when we have such other more important issues. When families are facing Christmas in homelessness, when people cannot afford to heat their homes this winter, when parents are forced to skip meals to feed their children, when people cannot get a hospital bed, or even a GP appointment, when children are being denied a school place or necessary therapies etc.
The list of massive failures of this government is fairly substantial, but people claiming the dole doesn’t really make the cut.
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
As @rte announced on the news there are ZERO residential placements in the Republic of Ireland with 2000 waiting and as I know personally, as a carer myself with an adult daughter at home, many more with their adult children at home full time, that that number is far higher.
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Spent a day in Beaumont Hospital A and E last week. The waiting room is a literal tent. Id say it was put in as a temporary measure during covid and now is permanent. Old people basically sat outside shivering for hours on end. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
People deserve better than this, was in A&E with a family member in Cork City last night and to say it was like The Twilight Zone is an understatement. Decent hardworking people deserve better than having to sit on a plastic chair in a stinking portacabin for hours on end!
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Same in Tallaght 76 year old woman (my Mam) left on a chair over 24 hours in pain absolute disgrace ,what are we paying carzg amounts if tax for and we can't get basic care @HSELive
Currently freezing in cork university hospital A&E @HSELive. Never experienced anything like it in my life. Sent home post op Monday with no antibiotics and back queuing in a&e. Huge medical neglect @MichealMartinTD @DonnollyStephen
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Hello @JamesBrowneTD . 400 approved housing body representatives gathered in Cork to discuss all things finance to deliver & improve the delivery of social housing . Where are you ! Where is any junior Minister? Where is any senior department official? @icsh_ie @DeptHousingIRL
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
#Budget2027 failed #Disabled Citizens & #Carers - #Disabled Citizens engaged in good faith with meaningless ‘Consultation’ -Paltry €500 ‘Cost of Disability’ payment excludes Disabled workers & Children Under 16 - #Disability & #Carers Allowance Should Be Non-Means Tested Payment
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
The lived experience.
Now you have to sit in the pouring rain waiting for someone else to give you permission to get on a public bus.
We’ve proposed buses that can accommodate two chairs but we’re told told “contracts signed and deals are done, we will consider it in the next procurement process” that’s at least 10-15yrs away!!!!
Public transport Eh!!!!!
#Exclusion #Disabilities
@struggleiswheel @adayinmywheels
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Recommended CHI probe into spinal and orthopaedic care risks ‘shielding people responsible for failures’, say families independent.ie/irish-news/he…
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
@fiannafailparty and @FineGael have just desecrated my son Harvey’s memory.
After everything our family has endured, this is how they choose to treat his legacy. I will not stay silent, and I will not let them rewrite what happened to my son.
The government has accepted the recommendation to carry out a commission of investigation into spinal and orthopaedic care by Children's Health Ireland (CHI) rather than a public inquiry.
jrnl.ie/7175579t
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
"The daily cost of living with a vision impairment is in many ways incalculable."
Pat Dolan of Fighting Blindness on the costs that never show up on a receipt.
Read our pre-Budget-submission: rebrand.ly/9j23yyk
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
These children have not only been failed during this neat 6 year window and that timeline is absolutely indefensible.
-In 2016 Harvey was born, with quite serious scoliosis already at that point and Temple Street (pre-CHI) linked him to an orthopaedic surgeon that only deals with feet so he was never even reviewed properly.
-In 2017 we got told his scoliosis was ‘life and death’ and that his ribs were crushing his lungs. That same year we saw the Prime Time exposé highlighting the years of failures in scoliosis care that led to @SimonHarrisTD 4 month sound bite.
-In 2018 at 2 years of age, Harvey got pneumonia for the first time as a result or reduced lung function.
This is the type of information that won’t even feature in this farce of an inquiry.
